While listening to a radio programme on philosophy, I heard something thought-provoking: one of anchors, an atheist, praised Christianity. He said Christianity's greatest achievement is invention of atheism and secular state. "That which is God's, to God; that which is Caesar's, to Caesar." Perhaps there's a grain of truth in that. According to them no other major religion allows it. (I'm an atheist raised in a catholic family, in case you want to accuse me of bias).